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superchunk on 12 September 2012
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Jay520 said:
superchunk said:
Jay520 said:
Your prediction about the PSV being phased out in a few years rests on the premise that the Vita's success requires it to be the most powerful device available. I'm not if that's the case for the Vita.

Yeah, this holiday will give show if I'm right or not on Vita's short life. If they sale great, I'm probably wrong, if they sale far less than anything else...well yeah.


Even if it does get phased out, it could simply be the result of not having appealing games. If it doesn't have appealing games, then it would be phased out regardless of how strong the hardware is. I don't think we can be certain of whether the weak hardware was a significant cause to the hardware's demise. Even if it did have strong hardware, it would still fail if the games weren't there. 

So you could be correct, but not for the right reasons imo

I don't think its hardware is weak. Just that Sony's business model for it was bad, which is why I've maintained it should have been a smartphone. Sony's target audience largly won't buy a smartphone AND a dedicated handheld that besides core gaming, has less features.

Nintendo can do that because their handhelds target a younger market by default. One that will not have smartphones, but would like games and other 'smart' features.

So, Sony needs to either directly compete with Nitnendo (which it doesn't have the 1st party to do so) or directly compete with smartphones (which it already has the competency to do so). Of course it should still be based on a dedicated game console (i.e. controls and games) but also be a full smartphone.